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Better Homes and Gardens The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book: More than 400 recipes from appetizers to desserts (Better Homes & Gardens) | 
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| Author: Better Homes & Gardens
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 21952
Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8 x 1
ISBN: 047054032X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5884
EAN: 9780470540329
ASIN: 047054032X
Publication Date: December 21, 2009
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Product Description
You'll never run out of meal ideas for your slow cooker with this massive, photo-filled compendium. The second book in the Ultimate series, following The Ultimate Cookie Book, this giant collection of recipes will keep your slow cooker meals delicious and exciting for years to come. There's way more here than just pot roasts and stews; this book offers recipes for main courses, appetizers, sides, and even desserts and breakfast. With all that, you'll never lack for ideas again!
Nearly 500 pages in length and packed with full-color photos and hundreds of inventive recipes—The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book is a great deal at a great price.
• Includes 400 recipes, including main dishes, appetizers and beverages, soups and stews, side dishes, breakfast, and desserts
• 200 full-color photos and a beautiful design will help inspire your next slow cooker sensation
• Features tips on converting many of your favorite conventional recipes for soups, stews, and roasts so they can be prepared in the slow cooker
• A great big cookbook at a small price
Whether you've been using your slow cooker for years and need new ideas or you're a first-timer looking for easy dinner solutions, this is the ultimate slow cooker book for you.
Recipe Excerpts from The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book 
Pumpkin, Chickpea, and Red Lentil Stew | 
Lemon–Poppy Seed French Toast | 
Better-Than-Grandma’s Chicken and Noodles |
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| Customer Reviews:
Your field guide to expanded use of your slow cooker March 23, 2010
Craig Matteson (Ann Arbor, MI)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
So many of us have slow cookers and yet so few of us get much beyond pot roasts or stews. Why is that? I think it is because we don't really understand the potential of a slow cooker and the basic cooking techniques that can enhance what you can cook in them.
This book is for everyone who has a slow cooker and wants to explore all the things you can do with it. The first ten page chapter teaches you how to best use your slow cooker, what you need to be concerned about, including how to adapt regular recipes to slow cooker recipes. You will also get really good advice on food safety, when to add various kinds of ingredients, and how to layer them in your cooker. They warn you, for example, to not have your timer start your cooker more than two hours after you put the ingredients in the pot. And never cook your meat from a frozen state. Also, if you have large roasts, cut them in half. When you should add your pasta, how you prepare ground meat for clos cooking, and how to use dry versus fresh herbs. Helpful tips, right?
Since this is The Ultimate book on slow cooking, you get recipes for things I know I never even expected could be done in a slow cooker, but once you think through the recipes they really do make sense. You get chapters on appetizers and beverages (yes, drinks such as hot chocolate, hot punches, and the like), breakfasts, soups, stews, poultry, beef & veal, pork & lamb, meals without meat, side dishes, and even desserts.
Each recipe tells you the ingredient list, the size of slow cooker the recipe is made for (so you can adjust to yours), the steps to make the dish (remember it isn't all just dump it in, turn it on, and come back 8 hours later), and nutrition information. Many of the dishes have appetizing photographs of the dish. Helpful notes about the recipe and tips for slow cooking generally are given throughout the book and will help you make better dishes more easily and with easier cleanup.
The book is colorful, laid out clearly, and the page edges have different colors for each section. In addition to an index you are also given advice for metric conversion of the recipes and the very last page has a list of emergency substitutions you can make for ingredients you suddenly realize you don't have on hand. These substitutions will be helpful to you for any dish you make, not just slow cooker meals.
Now, these recipes often include canned ingredients, mixes, and so forth. Since the idea of slow cooking is so much about convenience and ease of preparation, these kinds of choices can make sense. If you want to cook from scratch ingredients you could, but you have to add a lot of prep time. Just do what you want and have fun!
A very useful resource for home cooks wanting to push their slow cooking boundaries.
Great book July 16, 2010
Crystal (Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have made about 5 recipes from this book so far. Each time they have turned out great. Once in a while the meat seems a little dry, so I'm trying to figure out how to prevent that from happening. Each recipe has the nutritional information. I have found it very helpful.
slow cooker lover April 15, 2010
D. J. O'brien (Sonoma, Ca)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Love having the slow cooker for preparing meals AHEAD of time! It is so easy, and great to be out and about, and come home to the ready to eat dinner there! And this cookbook is outstanding! Recipes are easy to prepare, and absolutely delicious. I usually prepare them the evening before; put them in the cooker in the refrigerator, and then set it up, turn it on in the morning. The delicious aroma greets one when you open the door when you arrive home. And all you have to do is get yourself seated, and enjoy a GREAT meal!
 Great cookbook! Lots of choices! February 22, 2010
R. Johnson
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This cookbook is great! There are lots of pictures. Of the several meals I've made so far, I've liked them all.
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